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The American Public Power Association’s members approved several new policy resolutions that highlight the Association’s concerns about rising transmission costs, its opposition to efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate public power pole attachments and the Association’s push for certain improvements to tax exempt financing.

Vermont utility Green Mountain Power, working with Renewable Energy Vermont, an association of Vermont based renewable energy companies, has enhanced its program that provides incentives for customers with energy storage devices.

Rep. Robert DeLeo, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, announced an initiative to invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to help communities across the state adopt technologies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen infrastructure and reduce municipal costs.

Algona Municipal Utilities in Iowa, working with Iowa State University, has used a grant from the American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) program to develop a tool to help utilities make better use of the flood of data available from advanced metering infrastructure.

A joint effort to help cities procure over 2.8 gigawatts of renewable capacity was launched on Feb. 26 by the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge, Rocky Mountain Institute, World Resources Institute and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network.